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Well that didn't take long. Earlier this week we saw the announcement of the HTC Desire and now a hacked ROM has appeared online. Paul from MoDaCo has uploaded what he calls an alpha leak of the HTC Desire software. As many of you know the Desire features almost identical hardware to the Nexus One, but it comes loaded with HTC's Sense UI instead of stock Android.
Since the phones are so similar, it is easy to swap out the ROMs and bring the Sense UI to the Nexus One. As noted, "this isn't even beta so there's a good chance you won't want to use this as your main ROM", but it is still cool to see what is coming next from HTC.
Our friend Csewell has already flashed the Sense UI ROM onto his Nexus One and captured it on video so you can check out the hack without messing up your phone.
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USCCB President Welcomes Pope Francis' 2015 Visit to the United States
Pope Francis made his intention to travel to the United States for the 2015 World Meeting of Families public on November 17, 2014, in an address to the Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man and Woman at the Vatican.
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed the news.
"The presence of Pope Francis at the World Meeting of Families in our country will be a joyful moment for millions of Catholics and people of good will. Our great hope has been that the Holy Father would visit us next year to inspire our families in their mission of love. It is a blessing to hear the pope himself announce the much anticipated news," said Archbishop Kurtz.
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President, First Lady to Welcome Pope Francis to White House September 23
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will welcome Pope Francis to the White House Sept. 23.
"During the visit, the president and the pope will continue the dialogue, which they began during the president's visit to the Vatican in March 2014, on their shared values and commitments on a wide range of issues," said a statement released March 26 by the Office of the Press Secretary at the White House.
Those issues, it said, include "caring for the marginalized and the poor; advancing economic opportunity for all; serving as good stewards of the environment; protecting religious minorities and promoting religious freedom around the world; and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities."
The statement added, "The president looks forward to continuing this conversation with the Holy Father during his first visit to the United States as pope."
Last year, in their first encounter, Pope Francis received the president at the Vatican for a discussion that touched on several areas of tension between the Catholic Church and the White House, including religious freedom and medical ethics.
During an unusually long 50-minute meeting, the two leaders discussed "questions of particular relevance for the church in (the U.S.), such as the exercise of the rights to religious freedom, life and conscientious objection as well as the issue of immigration reform," the Vatican said in statement afterward.
While in Washington, Pope Francis will address a joint meeting of Congress Sept. 24, making him the first pope to do so.
The Archdiocese of Washington said it would host the pope for his visit, but did not announce dates. On his flight from the Philippines to Rome in January, Pope Francis said he would canonize Blessed Junipero Serra at Washington's Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
On March 18, the United Nations announced Pope Francis will visit there the morning of Sept. 25 to address the U.N. General Assembly. The pope also will meet separately with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and with the president of the General Assembly. The pontiff also is scheduled to a town hall gathering with U.N. staff.
In a statement, Ban noted that the pope's visit came during the United Nations' 70th anniversary, in which its members would make decisions about sustainable development, climate change and peace. He said he was confident the pope's visit would inspire the international community to redouble its efforts for social justice, tolerance and understanding.
The United Nations did not release the detailed itinerary for the meetings, part of a larger papal visit to Washington, New York and Philadelphia. The Vatican is expected to release the official itinerary about two months in advance of the trip, unless local officials release it earlier.
Pope Francis already had announced his participation Sept. 26 and 27 for the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.
During his pontificate, St. John Paul II visited the United States seven times -- two of which were fuel stopovers -- making the country his most frequent foreign destination after his native Poland. He addressed the U.N. General Assembly in 1979 and 1995; Blessed Paul VI did so in 1965 and Pope Benedict XVI addressed the assembly in 2008, during his one U.S. visit as pope.
U.N. Says Pope Francis Will Visit Morning of September 25
UNITED NATIONS (CNS) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the announcement that Pope Francis would visit the United Nations the morning of Sept. 25 to address the U.N. General Assembly.
In a statement March 18, the United Nations also said the pope would meet separately with the secretary-general and with the president of the General Assembly and would participate in a town hall gathering with U.N. staff.
Ban noted that the pope's visit came during the United Nations' 70th anniversary, in which its members would make decisions about sustainable development, climate change and peace. He said he was confident the pope's visit would inspire the international community to redouble its efforts for social justice, tolerance and understanding.
House Speaker Boehner Announces Pope Francis Will Address Congress
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced Feb. 5 that Pope Francis will address a joint meeting of Congress Sept. 24.
The pontiff's "historic visit" would make him the "first leader of the Holy See to address a joint meeting of Congress," Boehner said in a statement, adding that he was "truly grateful that Pope Francis has accepted our invitation."
Boehner noted that "in a time of global upheaval, the Holy Father's message of compassion and human dignity has moved people of all faiths and backgrounds. His teachings, prayers, and very example bring us back to the blessings of simple things and our obligations to one another."
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I have just started snow kiting about a month ago, I bought the HQ Apex 3 5m with a peter lynn harness. The kite and harness were brand new when I purchased them.
I am just wondering if the Depower is behaving the way it should be. When I first got the kite the depower was acting completely reverse to what it should be, if I pull the bar towards me, the kite would not fly at all (stall) and if I push the bar towards the kite, the kite would pull and the power (and angle of attack) would seem to increase.
After this first session I realized there were several adjustment knots for the front lines, so I tried shortening the front lines and the kite behaved much better but still not completely the way I think it is supposed to. I have the front lines set on the shortest setting and when I move the bar towards me the kite will go down but maybe increase in power a little bit (part of this I think is because of it moving towards the power zone.) When I move the bar away the kite will move up, towards the zenith if I have the kite horizontal. It is hard to notice an increase or decrease in power when moving the bar other than the kite will move up or down. I am just wondering if this is the way the kite is supposed to fly or is there something I am missing?
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Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson was arrested for driving under the influence, and possession of cocaine in Scottsdale, Arizona early Friday morning. And TMZ has learned Tyson told cops he had been using illegal substances in the past few days.
Police say Tyson was coopertive and acted like a gentleman.
Tyson was booked at a Maricopa County sheriff's jail, and is expected to have an initial appearance before a judge later today to determine bail.
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GALAX, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police on Monday identified the three victims of a chain-reaction crash involving nearly 100 vehicles along a mountainous, foggy stretch of Interstate 77.
The victims were identified as William M. Sosebee, 33, of Allen, Ky.; Kathern Worley, 71, of Iron Station, N.C.; and Andrew Katbi, 24, of Delphos, Ohio.
State police said Sosebee and Worley were passengers in different vehicles that struck the same tractor-trailer, while Katbi was the driver of another vehicle that reared-ended a tractor-trailer. All died at the scene.
State police investigators said 95 vehicles were involved in 17 separate crashes within a mile span near the base of Fancy Gap Mountain near the North Carolina state line Sunday. Twenty-five were injured.
The crashes began around 1:15 p.m. Sunday when there was heavy fog in the area.
"This mountain is notorious for fog banks. They have advance signs warning people. But the problem is, people are seeing well and suddenly they're in a fog bank," said Glen Sage of the American Red Cross office in the town of Galax.
Since 1997, there have been at least six such pileups on the mountain but Sunday's crash was the most deadly, according to The Roanoke Times. Two people died in crashes involving dozens of vehicles in both 2000 and 2010.
State police said traffic along the interstate in southwest Virginia backed up for about 8 miles in the southbound lanes after the accidents. Authorities closed the northbound lanes so that fire trucks, ambulances and police could get to the wrecked vehicles.
Overhead message boards warned drivers starting at about 6 a.m. Sunday to slow down because of the severe fog, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said. The crashes were mostly caused by drivers going too fast for the conditions.
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If One Dream Dies, Dream Another Dream.
Letting go of old dreams to make room for new ones.
It's hard to believe that it has been 15 years. While still in college, I set out to develop one very wild idea that kept brewing in my head. I wanted to find a way to sell t-shirts all over the United States that represented my nationality . I wanted to create a brand (not having a clue what a brand was then.) A clothing line that would allow me to create products for immigrants like myself. Like many immigrants in the USA, I felt the need to represent where I came from. The island of the Dominican Republic. I wanted to build a line of products for people that hold a deep passion and connection to the country they are proud to be from.
While visiting cultural festivals in my then hometown of Boston, I realized that the apparel that was being sold was of very low quality and the designs were just lame. Ironed-on, lame! Yet people keep buying them. It made me wonder why it was so hard to find a single dominican t-shirt that was high in quality and that I would be proud to wear in public, any given day and not just at festivals.
So after many months of brainstorming, designing ideas and mapping out a plan to hit the warm summer streets of Boston, DeezShirts was born. A tiny local t-shirt brand with nine designs representing most major nationalities in the city. The designs covered Dominicans, Haitians, Puerto Ricans, Colombian, Mexican and Cape Verdeans.
The name 'DeezShirts' came about as a play on the phrase "these shirts". I wanted the name to rhyme, like: "hey, I got deezshirts for sale… Check them out!". One of my closest friends (Prieto) jokingly kept calling it DeezNutz and made fun of it for months. Eventually all the jokes left catchy and I kept thinking that DeezShirts idea didn't seem that bad. So I ran with it.
I believed in this idea like nothing else I had ever worked on and I put all little bit of money that I had into it without a single ounce of doubt. After my car was stolen and the insurance money came in, I invested it all in DeezShirts. It was $4000 to be exact. I used $2000 to buy a used van from my uncle, $1500 went into t-shirt blacks and printing cost and I used left over $500 on cellphone payments, web domain name and hosting, flyers, posters and business cards. Yes, business cards were a hit back in those days.
I will never forget day one, waiting outside of the printing shop thinking about what I was about to do. The loading dock doors opened and I packed my van with fleshly hot-off-the-press t-shirts. That was a summer to remember. Every day after work, I was out selling t-shirts out of my van until 1:00 am. I drove through every playground, every basketball court, every park, every bodega (Spanish corner store) and I sold great t-shirts, pinned up posters and gave out business cards. I vividly remember how every time I drove away from a spot, I always go called back because other people wanted to buy my products.
It was a magical feeling to stand in front of an unknown crowd and watch them all smile from learning that a product you created existed.
Now, before I go any further and share why I am letting go of this dream, I want to mention how grateful I am for the journey that putting together this little business has given me. I would not be where I am today, had it not been for the chance I took on myself and all the things I learned while developing and running this t-shirt business.
I learned about starting a business from scratch, trademarks, copyrights and all that legal stuff most people tend to fear. Rightfully so, I can relate because I have been through that. I managed to somehow, without any knowledge, build a successful business with very little help. I took on an endeavour of a lifetime where I branded, marketed and sold products all over the United States and eventually internationally.
Without a choice, I became an entrepreneur and picked up business skills that no school could have helped me learn. I am talking management skills, budgeting, business relationship skills, products development and marketing campaigns and killer grassroots/gorilla marketing skills.I got to meet people from all walks of life. A lot of beautiful people that inspired me and provided me with support and confirmation that the wild idea in my head was a good one. It sure was.And with all the responsibilities that come with running a small business, I was able to become a better designer as I grew with the company.
I've been struggling with letting go for a while
This business was so good to me and it has been part of my life for a very long period of time. I even automated the entire business so it could run on its own completely without very little effort, but even then, I still wanted to let go. Heartache and all, I still wanted out. Here is why:
I started this t-shirt business back when t-shirts + cool designs weren't a business and the market is now very saturated. Even my mother has a t-shirt business somewhere, I am sure.
The more time I held on to the business the more I felt like I was cheating myself out of stepping out of my comfort zone as a designer and entrepreneur to do bigger things. In order words, I kept wanting bigger challenges.
I grew out of wearing t-shirts with funny or cultural messages myself and I felt like a sellout designing t-shirts that many people loved but I wouldn't wear myself. It's kind of like if Michael Jordan was selling his famous sneakers, but somehow he only wore wingtip suede shoes.
It didn't feel like running the t-shirt business was fun anymore. It felt more like an obligation.
I crashed and burned a few times trying to provide a great product and a good experience to my Latino community. A community that at many times expects nothing but the highest quality. These were frustrating times, but I kept at it.
I wanted to grow and every time I tried to do something new and explore other creative avenues, the t-shirt business kept pulling back to the repetitiveness that it had turned into. Ideas, designs, production, ship and repeat.
My heart just wasn't in it anymore. It's kind of hard to believe that one can fall out of love with something they loved doing so much. Come to think of it though, this could happen with many things, not just with a business journey. I absolutely loved this. I loved it to a point where I looked forward to long nights and very little sleep. All for the cause of introducing new products on a regular basis and watching the love pour in from all the fans, old or new.
If you find yourself still yearning for some good ol' and classic Latino and Dominican joints, I recommend checking out The Peralta Project. Peralta is hands-down one of my favorite artists (I wish he would sell his amazing canvases) and he has been pushing out great artwork for as long as I can remember. His work is uplifting, inspidring and it's sure to raise an eyebrow while putting a smile on your face. Huge fan!
Wait, so what now?
In the last four years I have been lucky to find myself working at some amazing companies as a Senior Product Designer and User Experience Architect.
Starting with MATLAB, where I worked with a very talented group of people while building and shipping products to market. This was an unforgettable experience that paved the way, allowing me to further understand the digital world we now live in.
I then went on to implement my product design and entrepreneur expertise to help build a number of startups (Rokk3rLabs, Juana La Iguana, Hyp3rApp and AdMobilize). This ultimately exposed me to a whole new world. A world that is constantly growing while solving problems. A world I dove right into, head first.
Today I am at PWC Digital, where as part of The Experience Center of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, I work with creative teams to build experiences for global brands. These are exciting times for sure and I can't wait to see what the future holds.
My main plan now is to focus all of my energy in building digital products. I want to build products that are going to solve problems. I want to use my talents and challenge myself to develop products that can provide a solutions around the world. Solutions that can hopefully help a lot of people.
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by Terry Duffy
A realistic budget with a cautious eye on the future summarizes the approach the Town of Lewiston has taken with regard to its 2014 spending plan.
Fresh off Tuesday's election results, which now sees Dennis Brochey taking over as supervisor come January from Steve Reiter, the town presented its somewhat revised budget to the residents on Thursday. A small crowd was on hand, which included members of the local citizens group Residents for Responsible Government that has been very active of late in its attempts to persuade the town and Niagara County to reinstate funding for environmental attorney Gary Abraham. The matter has come to the forefront as the area's battle against CWM Chemical Waste Services' hazardous waste expansion plans and a new Residuals Management Unit-2 landfill heats up.
Also on hand was Brochey, who sat in the crowd as an observer. He offered no comment at the session.
Town Clerk Carol Brandon opened with an overview on the 2014 town budget, one that is slightly smaller from earlier numbers, reflecting growing town apprehension in the face of tight times.
By the numbers, following the latest belt-tightening discussions of town department heads, the overall spending plan now totals $17,170,871, down slightly from the earlier $17,241,603 preliminary budget summary number released on Sept. 30. Broken down, it reflects $11.404 million in appropriations spending (General; General/Outside Village; Highway/Drainage-Town, outside Village; and Water Pollution Control Center accounts). That number is down from the $11.503 million from earlier. Modest spending increases were seen in the General, General/Outside Village and Highway/Drainage-Town Outside Village accounts, but offset by a decline of just over $100,000 in the WPCC account.
Overall, the spending plan, reflecting adjustments from estimated revenues and appropriated fund balance accounts, again calls for $0 to be raised by taxes, continuing for now a trend enjoyed by Lewiston property owners.
Special districts spending (Lewiston Water Improvement; Fire Protection; Lewiston Master Sewer; Lewiston South Sewer, Lewiston Heights; and Refuse accounts) totaled $5,765,963, a roughly $32,000 increase from the earlier numbers in September. However following adjustments from estimated revenues and appropriated fund balance accounts, the amount to be raised via taxes remains at $2,465,504 -- the same as earlier estimates.
Commenting on the 2014 plan, Town Finance Director Michael Johnson noted it increased $530,259 from 2013 and attributed that to a number of factors, including increases in the police and state retirement system accounts; and increases in workmen's compensation and insurance costs. He said that was offset by higher sales tax numbers realized in 2013, but that extra money also went toward increased Highway Department spending. Johnson added that thus far sales tax numbers in 2014 are slightly lower.
He went on to advise caution to Town Board members for the future. "This is as trim as we can get on this budget for 2014," said Johnson, adding he was "very concerned" for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017.
"The time has come for the board to sit down and look for new revenue," he continued, advising the board to look at such revenue streams as fees and money realized from collections and franchise agreements, such as the recently reworked agreement with Time Warner. Johnson closed his remarks by advising the Town Board to issue a directive to department heads, advising them to not pursue any increases in spending without board consultation and approval. Soon after, Councilman Ernie Palmer presented such a resolution, which went on to be approved unanimously by attending members. Councilman Al Bax and Reiter were not in attendance; Deputy Supervisor Gary Catlin filled in for Reiter.
Residents' comments for the most part consisted of urgings by RRG attendees and others for the town to resume its funding for attorney Abraham as soon as possible. Lewiston resident Amy Witryol, noting the continuing inaction by the town on funding Abraham despite it being contained in the 2014 budget plan, advised that an "immediate 2013 disbursement of $32,000 to Niagara County is needed to put health, science and legal professionals back to work on pressing issues of public risk."
She went on recommend that Lewiston include "budgeting $100,000 for 2014" to address what she called "extensive and intense state proceedings to finally determine whether to allow or deny CWM's massive 30-year expansion proposal."
"Failure to finish the fight with adequate funding could leave Lewiston with one of the last toxic waste landfills in the U.S. with all the associated negative impacts," Witryol said in closing.
Similar urgings were echoed by RRG members, including attorney Nils Olsen of Youngstown. "It's crucial that the town become involved quickly," said Olsen, noting the state Department of Environmental Conservation's pending "notice of application" announcement on CWM's years-old application for expansion and RMU-2. The announcement will then trigger the formation of a siting board by the governor en route to public hearings as part of the review process.
Others in the crowd were not as supportive to the Abraham funding request. Water Street resident Bart Klettke told the board "the town should not spend a penny to stop CWM. Keep CWM a viable operation," he said.
And Fourth Street resident Ron Craft questioned Abraham's value and the use of taxpayer money to fund him. "(I have) questions on the use of this money," said Craft, asking the board to whom, where does it go, and what's the end result for success?
"What's his batting average?" he asked.
RRG president April Fideli thanked the board on its move to resume funding, but also urged it to act quickly. "It's in everyone's best interest to fund this," she said, urging immediate payments to the county.
Town Board members offered no response to the comments heard and adjourned the session soon after. It was announced that the Town Board would meet again on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 3 p.m. at Town Hall to move on formally approving the 2014 spending plan. It needs to be adopted and filed with the state by Nov. 20.
Tuesday's session is open to the public.


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About this blog
FLEFF Intern Voices
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Monday, February 6, 2012
Blog posting written by Ian Carsia, Cinema & Photography '14, FLEFF Intern, Hamilton, NJ
When I first heard that the Criterion Collection was doing a release of Ishiro Honda's Gojira my excitement was indescribable. I only vaguely recall seeing the movie for the first time at the tender age of 3, but what I do remember was its irreparable impact. The metaphor flew right over my head, but there was a visceral power to the film, unparalleled by anything I had seen before or would see after.
Thus is the power of cinema, to be able to drive chills up our spines without our ability to articulate precisely why.
It was that experience which ignited my blindly stumbling journey, pursuing the allusive answer to that very "why". My majoring in Cinema & Photography, my reviewing film for The Ithacan (where my last name is oft-mispelled), and my maintenance of a personal critical/analytical blog, are all a part of that journey to quench the fires of that question.
Which is what draws me to FLEFF. With this year's theme of MICROTOPIAS, the festival once again seeks to bring together the love of cinematic art with passionate activism for human rights and the sustainability of the environment.
With this theme, FLEFF further implies a democratization of art made possible by the ubiquity of technology in our everyday lives.
For many, movies represent passivity and a detachment from the kinds of critical theories and ethical dilemmas that FLEFF seeks to address. (I believe Fran Lebowitz's fifth bullet-point offers a fairly humorous and welcome criticism of the 'art' of cinema.)
Unfortunately, this attitude has not been helped by a critical and analytical community that has emphasized more 'traditional' modes of making, exhibiting, and engaging with the cinematic art-form, and in such a way that mirrors the exact kinds of anti-democratic and elitist attitudes that defined cinema in its earliest incarnation as the un-godly entertainment of illiterate new immigrants.
FLEFF rejects these biases and its unarticulated pessimism. All individuals have the ability to make and engage with art and to effect profound change in the public perception of global affairs.
If you are passionate about FLEFF, then that means you too believe in and are a part of the Microtopia in which critical theory about art and activism collide into a techno-democracy above and beyond the prescribed notions of how one engages art and media.
It means you too are on a journey to find the answer to that "why". Far from pessimistic, you take profound pleasure in engaging the questions.
I do, as well. Will you enjoy this limited engagement with me?
I checked out your personal blog, looks awesome!
Can you give a more popular example of "traditional modes of making, exhibiting, and engaging with the cinematic art form?" It sounds really interesting!
Thanks for the blog-related complement, Chloe. I look forward to working with you in FLEFF and on the blog.
With "traditional modes" I was really just referring to the idea that 'movies are made on film and projected in movie houses.' As in, that idea that new media art and post-modern installations are unacceptable to a certain extent.
I just think sometimes critics want to limit 'who gets to see film'. So I use the term anti-democratic. I like that FLEFF is more broad in its acceptance of new media cinema.
I don't know, am I just paranoid? Do you ever feel like the status quo is such that regular people are prevented from engaging with art?


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Officials at a venue in Sydney have launched an investigation into allegations Russell Crowe was involved in a bust-up after the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards.
The Hollywood actor jetted Down Under to host the prizegiving on Wednesday (30Jan13), but his star turn has been marred by reports suggesting he had an Australian actor ejected from the show's official afterparty following an argument.
Alex Haddad claims he approached the Gladiator star and asked to have a picture taken with him, but alleges Crowe turned nasty and had him thrown out.
He tells the Sydney Daily Telegraph, "(He) rudely declined (the picture) and started to get abusive... I wasn't drinking... I wasn't fighting, and I definitely wasn't harassing Russell. Security told me Russell had asked for me to be removed."
A spokesman for Crowe has denied the Oscar winner ordered Haddad's removal from the Marquee nightclub, inside the Star Casino where the awards were held.
However, a representative for the casino has confirmed they will be looking at CCTV footage from the club to determine what happened, saying, "We are investigating the matter."
Crowe has addressed the allegations in a series of posts on Twitter.com, criticising editors of the newspaper for publishing the story.
He writes, "You know the old saying...? If you can't say anything positive, don't say anything at all... f**k me, that's a hard ask... In Australia, we don't have privacy laws... we do however have laws that preclude you from publicly humiliating an individual... Lawyers? Researchers? Comb through 25 years of BS (bulls**t), print anything s**t by the Telegraph 2 (sic) prove they don't do news but they do humiliation?"


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Genre: Mystery Adventure
Release dates: North America: June 16, 2009 (digital) / August 10, 2009 (boxed)
Platform: PC
Note: Originally published 2 July 2009
WARNING! They are not kidding about the 18+ rating for this game. If you are a sensitive person of any age group, you will want to stay away from Still Life 2. It's not so much the grisly depictions of brutal murders, but the "live" sadistic game scenarios. At times it feels like watching one of those webcam terrorist beheadings. There is a queasy voyeuristic quality to these scenes, almost as if the game designers expect you, the player, to be titillated by them. I would suggest, instead, you try a nice wholesome game like Grand Theft Auto.
There is one other warning I should issue up front: I did not play the first Still Life, or even the first leg of the trilogy, Post Mortem. If you did play SL1 and are reading this expecting either exultation over the brilliant continuation or utter despair at the lack of continuity, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. I have read enough on the web to know that Still Life 1 is a much admired game from four years back. Also that it famously ended without revealing the identity of the killer, the infamous Mr. X.
Well, I can tell you that the unmasking of Mr. X does occur in this sequel. Also, the cut-scene opening is, apparently, a flashback to the closing events of the original game. It looked nice, but I really didn't understand any of it. If you're like me and have not played the earlier game, I would say don't worry too much about any of this. Wait until Still Life 2 proper begins before starting to pay attention.
Where Still Life 2 proper does begin is somewhere in Maine (paging Mr. King). Tough FBI broad Vic McPherson is grumbling about this and that and yakking on the phone to her bud back in the main Chicago FBI office, Claire, the forensic expert coroner. Meanwhile, a local TV reporter is being kidnapped a couple of motel doors down from her. Oh well, at least it makes reaching the crime scene a breeze.
Said reporter is the co-heroine of the game. Paloma Hernandez is the flashy babe reporter for a local TV station, giving on-air grief to Vic over her lack of progress in solving this new, circa 2008, string of copycat grisly kidnappings and murders of beautiful young women. Paloma's impressions of the FBI improve somewhat when she finds a cell phone while in the killer's compound and phones Vic screaming for help. Although I don't really want to poke fun at Paloma. While Special Agent McPherson is more of a cliche action babe, Paloma is a refreshing, realistic portrayal of a smart, resourceful woman under serious duress. She screamed when it made sense and she ran like hell when she had the chance. No Perils-of-Pauline tripping over petticoats here. Even Vic grew on me during the game. Her tough-as-nails act was at times over the top -- "So what if you're sawing off both of my legs, you wimp? Is that the best you can do?" (Not an actual example from the game.) But Vic, too, proved to be noticeably deeper than your average horror game heroine, with a halfway decent range of emotions and even an occasional wit.
It's good to like both of these women, because you're going to be spending a lot of time moving each of them around the screen. Fans of the first Still Life will probably be shocked to learn that the sequel takes place almost entirely in one location, a rambling Victorian wood-frame house surrounded by electrified fencing somewhere deep in the Maine woods. However, this house is not as snug as it first looks from the outside. Oh, no. This house has got legs. It goes up, it goes down, it goes sideways. The main house is really just the entrance to the rabbit's warren. You have a fair amount of exploring to do.
The gameplay of Still Life 2 vacillates between the situations of the dual heroines, sometimes flashing backward in time. Sprinkled throughout are additional flashbacks to Vic's experiences following the conclusion of Still Life the First.
When you're playing as Paloma, you are knocking yourself silly trying to escape the maniac who has kidnapped you and plopped you into this Alice-in-Wonderland house for sickos to play out his various sicko game scenarios. The notorious "East Coast Killer" -- wow, could have worked a little harder on a catchier tag than than, Microids, n'est-ce pas? -- looks plenty menacing in his all black outfit and gasmask, but as a character he's a bit of a rerun. Unlike the heroines, his patter is mostly strictly-from-hunger nutjob psychopath. You may find yourself skipping (via the spacebar) through the usual insane raisons-de-etre he sputters.
In between Paloma's mouse-in-a-killer-maze episodes, you take over as Vic, running the investigation. You rather quickly find yourself at the isolated Maine house . . . thinking you're investigating after the culprit has flown, but, umm, maybe not. Like I say, it's a big, surprising place. In any event, Vic is equipped with her trusty smart phone and a rather elaborate FBI on-site investigation kit. This thing has more compartments than a Fuller Brush man's sample case. It does take awhile to get the hang of properly using its various components, but soon you'll find yourself swabbing and analyzing like an expert field agent. I have no idea how realistic this thing is, but I thought the game designers did a good job of making Vic's FBI activities seem quite plausible. You will feel like you're on site to do an investigation. You'll also find yourself calling your phone-a-friend Claire back in Chicago as well as interacting with your dutiful if a bit dull partner Garris, and a local woman sheriff who can be somewhat of a pain.
That's as much of the plot as I think I can afford to give away, other than to say there's a lot of it. This is one of those games where you'll think you've reached the end about a half dozen times. There is even one time when you do reach the end, and it's still not over. I didn't believe this until I tested it myself, but there are two different endings, with no going back if you get the "bad" one. Even if you have a save game past that point, the game "reverts" to the bad ending. You have to perform a task within a certain amount of time, and if time runs out, one of the main characters buys it. However, if you do solve it in time, there is yet another timed cliffhanger challenge.
Oh, did I mention that there are a whole bunch of timed sequences in Still Life 2? Oh, no! Anything but that! Well, my reaction exactly, at first. The problem with playing against the clock is that one never really does. At first, when I hit a timed sequence, I'd quit and load an earlier save. But, as it turns out, I learned while playing the game that some of these clock-beaters can be readily solved in the allotted time. Moreover, Microids has either courageously or foolishly made an attempt to insert a "true" timed sequence with that good/bad double ending. However, with the amount of time you're given and the simplicity of the required task, I find it hard to believe anyone will accidentally hit the bad ending. When I did it, just to see, I got kind of bored waiting around. I remain unconvinced that timed sequences in an adventure game can be an asset. Largely because they invariably turn into a guessing game, not a challenge.
Hey, remember dying in an adventure game? Well, in Still Life 2 it's back! In spades. I suppose dying is even more appropriate for a game like this than timed sequences, but it, too, gets mostly tiresome. There's a good reason why game publishers abandoned both dying and timing in the early 90's. Neither is any fun. Neither is a real challenge. What's the point?
Let me take a stab at the point, from Microid's point of view at least: It's an attempt to attract the vast numbers of action gamers. Well, I wish them luck but I question whether the adventure and action game audiences can ever truly be joined. The two constituencies are too much like the major American political parties, philosophically at polar extremes. What I will say about Still Life 2 is that I had little trouble overlooking these action-game elements. I could have lived without them, but there was enough adventury stuff to keep me happy.
As long as I'm discussing technical stuff, I should mention that Still Life 2 is a "real-time" 3D game. Whatever that is. From what I could see, it was a fairly standard 3D affair, with the furniture looking convincing and the characters looking like, well, walking furniture. Honestly, I couldn't care less. Maybe I play too many classic adventure games on DOSBox, but I have never cared what a game looks like. Only how it plays. I know some people really get worked up about this. It seems that Still Life 2 is a bit outdated in terms of the latest 3D chops. But it plays okay. Sure, it's a bit of a pain having to make your characters cross a large room with little baby steps. You can double-click to make them run to a spot, but for some reason they need a walking start to get up to speed. The game did hang on me a number of times. You can get Vic or Paloma into a "frozen" position. All you can do is restore. But in a game like this you should be saving frequently anyway. Really, any corner you turn in this game can change your situation drastically. There was also a fair amount of what the techies call "clipping," where a character half disappears into a wall. Also, some of the hotspots were wide off the mark. You've got to hunt around for them sometimes. None of this stuff bothers me very much. I have a rather modest PC running the Windows 7 Release Candidate 1, with a widescreen monitor and a 256-meg graphics card.Still Life 2 downloaded, installed and ran smoothly on this system. If the game is a bit retro in terms of graphics, it also appears more forgiving to older or less-robust computers. The people who squawk about a game being not-the-latest should remember that not everyone has a $5000 Alienware machine.
I know two of the things everyone loved about the first Still Life were the gorgeous backgrounds and the varied locations. There's no question that an all-3D game is considerably less attractive than 3D sprites sprinting across rich pre-rendered backgrounds. Perhaps the decision to go all-3D was economic. Still Life 2 does look a bit rushed out the door. The two biggest giveaways are the voiceovers and the game manual. For the most part, the voice acting in Still Life 2 is on the expert side. I even liked the sound effects, especially the strange noises the house is always making. What the hell was that! But Microids seriously skimped on some of the object descriptions. Since Vic and Paloma, at varying times, traipse through the same parts of the house, they decided to save some dough by just letting Paloma's responses suffice for both heroines. Thus, when you're playing Vic and you click on an overhead videocamera, you will hear Paloma say something like, "This weirdo is videotaping everything." Even I, who don't normally mind small inconsistencies, was irritated by this. Far stranger is the game manual. There is one whole paragraph in it untranslated from French. Another paragraph is mistakenly copied from higher on the page. What text was supposed to be there we'll never know. Everyone knows that nobody reads the game manual. Now we have proof that even some game publishers don't read the manual. Tres sloppy.
I feel sort of the same way about the music in a game that I do about the graphics quality. It's not that I don't like music in a game, it's just that it's rarely a make-or-break component for me. Let's face it, in the vast majority of adventure games the soundtrack falls into one of two categories: nice muzak, or okay muzak. Ideally, a game soundtrack does the same thing that a movie soundtrack does, which is underscore the emotional content of a scene. If you notice it, it's failing. Sure, there are games with outstanding soundtracks, such as the Monkey Island games, or, more recently, A Vampyre Story. Too often, though, the music in a game drowns out the dialogue, which is downright infuriating. Admirably, Still Life 2 has a generous options window, allowing you, among other worthwhile things, to lower the music. This I did. The music appears to be some sort of jangly new-age fusion machinist thingy, aside from the use of Mozart's Requiem for the opening cutscene, which I found vaguely sacrilegious. Speaking of the options menu, it also let me lower the graphic demands when the game action slowed to a crawl at one point. Score another one for the options menu. I know some have griped that the game only supports the one screen resolution, 1024 x 768. I played the game on a 1280 x 720 widescreen and, frankly, never noticed the difference. I guess Vic is a little slimmer than I thought, but that's about it in that department.
What I really care about in an adventure is the puzzles. Give me good, challenging puzzles and you can keep your super-duper refresh rate. Still Life 2, at first, didn't seem very impressive in this regard. For awhile there the puzzles consisted of reading stuff, collecting stuff and using stuff. You do have to get adept at meshing your inventory, your FBI kit and your smart phone, all three of which appear on a pop-up screen when you right click. Like most modern adventure games, the puzzling was mostly straightforward and streamlined. The little icons tip you off to the exact action for any hotspot. You won't need to try the screwdriver on the casaba melon because only items marked with the wrench icon will respond, or not. The icons tell you what you can look at, what you can photograph, what you can talk to -- pretty much everything is dictated to you. Which isn't to say that Still Life 2 is easy. It's easy, if not obvious, most of the time, but every so often you run into a real head-scratcher. These tend to be locked doors, which this beat-up old house is replete with. I was zipping along collecting and using up my inventory items when all of a sudden I hit a genuine logic puzzle. At first I couldn't believe it. You mean, you really expect me to solve an actual puzzle? Without help? Actually, there is a help system, with a little "help" icon that appears next to every "game objective" that accumulates in one folder of your smart phone, but I had it turned off. Which is my favorite feature of an in-game help system -- the off switch. By my count there are about a half dozen of these brain-ticklers throughout the game. A couple of them are as hard as they look.
Another untraditional adventure game feature that rears its ugly head in Still Life 2 is the limited inventory. Both Vic and Paloma have a limit of sixteen "cases" to store stuff. A nail file, for instance, fills up one space, while a mattress takes up all sixteen. This means you have to decide what to keep on your person and what to put in the assorted storage bins scattered around the premises. If they'd turned this into an actual puzzle element -- forcing you to carefully plan where to put what when -- I would have liked it more. But as it is all it does is make you walk around a bit more. I guess this is supposed to be more "realistic" than an unlimited inventory. True, up to the point where you stuff the mattress into the kitchen cabinet.
There also appears to be an inside game going on in Still Life 2, between the game designers and the player. Clearly, the designers are drawing parallels between what they do, designing mouse traps for players, and what the killer is doing, building murderous obstacle courses for his victims. This connection is stated rather bluntly near the end of the game. Was there supposed to be some sort of larger social point here? I didn't see it. If you genuinely want to torment the people who buy your game, don't put them through deadly mazes, just limit their save game slots.
The one thing I still wish is that either Vic or Paloma had made an attempt, however half-hearted, to get over that electrified fence. I mean, you're trapped in a house with a brilliant serial killer who in several years has not left a single clue, made a single mistake -- and you're going to go back into the house to try to use the phone? You're going to call who? The Rapid Response Rescue Company -- "Housecalls our specialty!" Sure, you're going to get a little singed on the fence, but come on. You think you're going to get better odds in the basement? There's a whole pile of stacked firewood right there. At least try to poke a hole in the cyclone fence. At one point, Vic actually makes it outside the perimeter. Of course, being the stalwart officer she is, she goes back to rescue Paloma. All alone. Is that standard FBI procedure? Check your manual, Vic. I think standard operational procedure at that juncture is run like hell and get real help. Oh well. And where would the fun be in acting reasonably? I'll tell you one thing. I started to get to like that house. Maybe it's the economic downturn, but I kept thinking while Vic and Paloma were running for their lives through its various rooms that, you know, with a little fixing up here and there, a few coats of paint, the place would look pretty respectable.
Another thing people loved about the first Still Life was the story. What I've read of it does sound interesting. The basic story of Still Life 2 I found to be largely revolting. What is really good, however, is the plot. The twists and the turns of the story are well designed and like a good page-turner thriller keep you hooked and anxious to reach the next development. I rather frequently found myself alternately repulsed and intrigued while playing through Still Life 2. The death sequences and the timed runs had me cussing and crushing pencil nibs on my desk, but ultimately I have to say that the game, as a game, is engrossing. I absolutely hated certain aspects, but found myself riveted to the screen until it was over.
As is so often the case of late, Still Life 2 was released in Europe months before the American version became available for download. The download, by the way, weighs in at about 4 gigs. These dates always seem fairly fluid, but I believe the box version of the game won't hit US stores until August.
Many are going to complain that Still Life 2 is not the continuation of Still Life that they'd dreamed of these past four years. Many are going to diss Still Life 2 for not having graphics chops in the Quake 3 range (or whatever the current benchmark is). Many are going to be sickened by the content of Still Life 2 (after ignoring my warning). I know that many traditional adventurists are going to be downright apoplectic about the timed runs and the dying. There are many reasons to hate Still Life 2, some of which I share. But, ultimately, a game is either fun to play or it isn't. Still Life 2, despite its many faults, draws you in, puts you through the ringer and then spits you out like a wad of used gum at the end. I can't say it's a great game -- too flawed and at times annoying for that -- but it does deliver the goods. I'm giving it an A minus. However, if you actually are a violent psychopath, you can bump that score up a couple of notches. And clean that subbasement! It's a disgrace.
Final Grade: A-
System Requirements:
Windows® XP/Vista™
1.5 GHz Intel Pentium® 4
Video Card: 128 MB DirectX® 9 Compatible
Disk Space: 4 GB Free
CR-ROM: 16x
Sound Card, Mouse, Keyboard DirectX® 9 Compatible


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POLI 213W (IT) Writing Political Philosophy: Individuality and Community (1)
This course examines relevant works of selected ancient and modern Western thinkers and analyzes different conceptions of individuality and community, the nature of their interactions and the implications for the contemporary evaluation of politics. Emphasis is also placed on the theory and practice of writing political philosophy. Open to freshmen and sophomores only.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing-centered; Interpreting Texts
- Offering: Annually
- Instructor: Basu


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CLEMSON — Tajh Boyd and David Watford are in different places in their careers, just as they were the last time they met on a football field.
Five years ago, Boyd's Phoebus Phantoms were on a mission to claim their second Virginia high school state championship in three years, a quest they would eventually complete. Watford's Hampton Crabbers were a city rival and posed little resistance, losing 42-6 that night.
"We kind of crushed them a little bit," Boyd recalled.
But Boyd, a senior at the time, took note of the sophomore Watford. There was always a mutual respect between quarterback products of the 757 area code.
"He's a good quarterback, can run, but he's really a good passer as well. Very poised. And he was the same way in high school," Boyd said. "He was actually less of a runner in high school. It's been good to watch him grow through the maturation process."
Boyd is again the top dog in the matchup, leading No. 8 Clemson (7-1, 5-1 ACC) to face Watford and Virginia (2-6, 0-4) Saturday afternoon in Charlottesville, 150 miles northwest of Hampton Roads.
This is the second time Boyd has played in the state of Virginia, and the closest he's ever played college football to his teenage residence in Hampton.
"Man, I'm excited to go back to the home state. It'll be something else," Boyd said. "It'll help cap off the senior season, a nice little homecoming."
Boyd and Watford have stayed in touch, since Boyd recognizes the value of a mentor. He himself looked up to other Hampton-area passers like Michael Vick, Aaron Brooks and Tyrod Taylor.
"We talk pretty frequently. He's a couple years younger than me, but it's always good to see a guy perform like that," Boyd said. "And as a person, he's just a great kid in general. Great values, great morals, surrounded by a Catholic family beside him, and for a guy to be another representation of that area; being an older guy, you want to make sure you can help out any way possible.
"If he calls and asks for advice in certain situations, I'm going to be there."
It's been appreciated by the youngster.
"I saw what he was doing, how good he was, the potential that he had," Watford said of Boyd earlier this week. "He kind of took me under his wing when I was in high school, so we're pretty close from that."
Watford's found mixed results in his first year as a starter; he's eighth in the league in total offense (1,836 total yards), but he's the owner of the second-lowest passer rating among ACC qualified quarterbacks.
Boyd's also familiar with the Cavaliers' starting weakside linebacker. Daquan Romero was Phoebus' tight end catching passes from Boyd.
Many of the Virginia Beach Mustangs, Boyd's Pop Warner team as a preteen, are expected to make the two-hour trip to watch Boyd play.
"To see some of those kids and have an impact on their lives is probably the most important thing for me," Boyd said. "Just gotta keep on being a positive role model and carry myself with the best image possible."
The battle cry around Clemson in the wake of Florida State's 51-14 rout was to take the pressure off Boyd, who had been starting to tighten up with the expectations mounting by the week.
Now that the Tigers are off the national championship radar, and he's off the Heisman short list, Boyd's trying to settle in for his final month of the regular season.
"This is my last go-around. So for me, my whole stigma is about trying to enjoy it fully," Boyd said. "Sometimes you get kind of concerned what people think, but that's not what you play for. That's why it's so important for us as a program and as a team, to go out there and relax and have fun."
Boyd rebounded from a brutal night against the Seminoles to roll up 328 total yards and a pair of scores in last Saturday's 40-27 win at Maryland.
"You don't want your quarterback going into a game worrying about doing too much," senior tailback Roderick McDowell said. "If you simplify everything and take a lot of pressure off him, Tajh can do so many great things. When you do that for Tajh, man, Clemson's gonna be all right."
Now come the Cavaliers, who based on cumulative schedules have played the nation's most difficult slate. Clemson is favored by 17 points, but via standard protocol, it's not overlooking Virginia.
"It's not going to be an easy game by any means," Boyd said. "So I'm looking forward to it."


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The European Space Agency ESA has unveiled the latest prototypes for a robotic rover that is due to land on Mars in 2015. The Mars robot's most important innovations concern its maneuverability: The rover has six wheels which can be rotated individually, allowing the robot to turn on the spot and move sideways like a crab. In addition the robot has a "wheel walking capability", which allows the robot to anchor itself with five of its wheels and inch each wheel forward one at a time, to crawl over an obstacle.
The novel hardware is complemented with a unique intelligent navigation system which enables the robot to take some decisions autonomously, avoiding the 20 minute delay for an instruction sent from Earth to arrive at Mars.
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Cellulitis is an infection of the skin and tissue just below the skin. The infection may occur anywhere on the body. It is most common on the lower legs.
Cellulitis is caused by a bacterial infection. It may come from bacteria that normally live on the skin or bacteria from other sources. The bacteria enter the skin through a cut or injury. The infection spreads into the surrounding skin.
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase the chance of cellulitis include:
- A untreated minor injury to the skin such as, a cut, scratch, blister, burn, puncture, or bite
- Injuries that occur in natural bodies of water
- Bacteria that enter the body through surgical wounds or a catheter in a vein
- Having certain conditions such as diabetes, HIV, weakened immune system, kidney or liver disease, obesity, or poor circulation
- Abusing alcohol or drugs
- Taking steroids on a regular basis
- Undergoing surgery
- Retaining fluids
- A fungal infection of the foot
- Handling certain foods, like raw fish, meat, shellfish, poultry, and eggs
Symptoms may begin within hours or days and can include:
Skin inflammation that begins in a small area and spreads with:
- Redness and warmth
- Pain or tenderness
- Swelling
- Dimpled skin
- Streaking—spreading of redness
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Fever or chills
- Fatigue
- Confusion
Cellulitis near the eyes may cause pain with eye movements and should be treated right away.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Your doctor will also ask about exposure to natural bodies of water or animals. Your skin will be closely examined. The border of the cellulitis on your skin may be marked. This will help to monitor its progress
Tests may include:
- Wound culture to test for the bacteria causing the infection
- Blood tests to see if the infection has spread to the bloodstream
In severe cases, the infection can lead to tissue death known as gangrene. It can also spread to the bone or other structures.
Images are not usually needed. They may be taken of your bodily structures if there is concern about spreading. This can be done with:
The goal is to eliminate the infection and reduce discomfort. Most cases resolve after 1-2 weeks of treatment.
Hospital care may be needed if you have:
- Severe cellulitis
- Diabetes or a weakened immune system
- An infection on your face
Treatment includes:
Antibiotics may be given by mouth, injection, or IV. The method will depend on the severity of the infection. The antibiotic chosen will depend on the bacteria causing the infection. Pain medication may also be prescribed.
Supportive Care
This may include:
- Elevating the infected area higher than your heart
- Changing any dressings as directed by your doctor
- Applying warm compresses
- Protecting your skin from additional injury
- Avoiding scratching or rubbing the area
Other Treatments
If you have an infected wound, it will need to be cleaned. Dead tissue may be removed. In certain situations, a collection of pus may develop. This is called an abscess. It can be drained.
To help reduce your chance of cellulitis:
- Keep your skin clean and dry.
- Moisturize dry skin with lotion.
Avoid injury to the skin:
- Wear protective gear in sports.
- Wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts when hiking.
- Wear sandals when at the beach, rather than going barefoot.
- Be careful around animals. Treat pets with respect to avoid bites.
- Do not swim in natural waters if you have cuts or sores.
- Try not to cut yourself during fishing or other water sports.
If a small cut, bite, or other injury occurs, carefully care for the wound:
- Clean cuts or scrapes with soap and water.
- Apply antibiotic ointment.
- Cover wounds with a bandage or dressing.
- Do not scratch wounds.
- Call the doctor right away if the area becomes red or inflamed.
- Seek prompt medical care for larger wounds or bites.
- Wash your hands after coming in contact with fish, poultry, eggs, or meat. Do not handle these items if you have cuts or sores.
- If your legs tend to swell, elevate them several times a day and wear support stockings.
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When it comes to protecting our most precious natural environments, EVERYONE can make a difference. Here are a few, simple ways you can help:
1. When you visit, take care of the park. It all boils down to respect. Pick up your trash. Leave natural habitats undisturbed. Keep your fires small. Leave your dog on a leash. Don't destroy anything.
2. Write to Congress and tell them what you think. If actions speak louder than words, just imagine the impact of action and words.
3. Make a financial contribution. These parks don't run themselves. Not only does park staff deserve a salary, park efforts to preserve the environment can be quite costly. A little financial help can go a long way.
4. Volunteer. Plain and simple.
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I may have missed it but I do not see anywhere in the rules how the playing surface for Petanque should be prepared. Must it be played on a gravel surface or is a closely mowed lawn also according to the rules. The question is: Could we play a World Competition on closely mowed lawn?
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Petanque can be played on many surfaces although a closely mowed lawn isn't one of them. Boules would bounce all over the place. Baked earth is okay though.
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If you click the Building menu, you'll see some examples of building terrains. Normally, pétanque is played on an 'unprepared' gravel terrain, i.e. with natural slopes, dips, stony areas, etc, all of which give 'character' to the game.
Have a look at the French championships on YouTube for a better idea of what a good terrain should be like.
One of the most common mistakes is to build a perfectly smooth, flat, featureless 'billiard table', i.e. the opposite of how the game is meant to be played.
Grass is one of the least suitable surfaces. It's not gravel and it's very 'bouncy' compared to a gravel surface.
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The study of philosophy increases awareness and appreciation of the fundamental intellectual, aesthetic and ethical values of the world in which we live. Like mathematics, economics and chemistry, the discipline of philosophy embodies formal thought, structural relationships, abstract models, symbolic languages and deductive reasoning. Students who develop these skills gain perspective to meet problems squarely, improvise and devise solutions, and overcome unpredictable circumstances in life.
National studies of college graduate test scores attest to the success of philosophy students. They consistently score better than nearly all other majors on the Graduate Record Exam, GMAT and LSAT.
But the value of an education in philosophy extends beyond the domain of personal and academic skills.
As the global community continues to shrink and corporate America restructures, careers will increasingly demand employees who can think critically, disclose hidden assumptions and values, formulate problems clearly, and discern the impact of ideas. The flexibility provided by a background in philosophy can become a career asset.
The undergraduate program in Philosophy is excellent preparation for many other disciplines and professional programs, including teaching, fine arts, natural and social sciences, psychology, and business.
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As has been widely rumored over the last few weeks, Microsoft entered into an agreement today to acquire Yammer, a social network for enterprise clients.
According to a press release sent out moments ago:
Microsoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to current CEO David Sacks….
Yammer will continue to develop its standalone service and maintain its commitment to simplicity, innovation and cross-platform experiences. Moving forward, Microsoft plans to accelerate Yammer's adoption alongside complementary offerings from Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics and Skype.
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Florida's Stephen Weiss tied the game at 2 midway through the third period with his first goal of the season. Jack Skille also scored for the Panthers.
Matt Read and Jakub Voracek both scored goals for the Flyers. Read continued to have his way with the Panthers. Read notched his first career hat trick last month against the Panthers and his second-period goal against Jose Theodore was his sixth goal against them in six career games. He has 28 career goals.
Read was stopped by Theodore in the shootout. Claude Giroux also came up short in the second round.
On a team with scorers such as Giroux and Danny Briere, Read's an unlikely candidate to put together a string of goals against one team. But he's found something that works against Florida.
This time, Read was situation in the right place, waiting near the crease to pop in the puck for a 2-1 lead. Theodore smushed the puck against the ice with his glove, but Mike Knuble poked, poked, and poked again until it broke free. Read took advantage of Knuble's second and third efforts for the goal.
Theodore was stout from there and stopped 30 shots.
The Flyers and Panthers each scored a goal in the first.
Skille scored his first of the season on a simple wrister from the slot that got past Ilya Bryzgalov. The Panthers had scored only 22 goals this season and Skille had yet to record a point in seven games.
After Florida was whistled for interference, the Flyers capitalized with a man advantage. Voracek fired from the right circle, and teammate Tye McGinn threw a nice screen in front of Theodore to allow the tying goal.
Weiss, a big name in trade rumors these days, is the longest-tenured Panther and career leader in games played and assists. He added a clutch goal to his resume when he evened it up against Bryzgalov, who had been sensational until then, including a flurry of stops in one stretch late in the second.
The Flyers played again without forward Wayne Simmonds, who sustained head and neck injuries on a hit from Washington's John Erskine last Friday.
Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren said it was a possibility Simmonds could play Saturday against Carolina.
Notes: The Flyers signed D Kimmo Timonen on a one-year contract extension through the 2013-14 season. Timonen is in his sixth season with the Flyers and 14th in the NHL. "He's a good solider and he's been a good Flyer," Holmgren said. ... Flyers F Scott Hartnell is on the mend from a broken left foot. He had the cast removed Thursday and could start skating next week, Holmgren said. Flyers D Andrej Meszaros (shoulder) also could skate this weekend. Both are expected out for at least another two weeks.


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H2O "Hardcore Kingdom" Tournament - Feb 17, Williamstown, NJ
Hardcore Hustle Organization (H2O) brings "Hardcore Kingdom" a one-night, 8-man Hardcore Elimination Tournament at 1041 Glassboro RD in Williamsport, NJ on Friday, February 17 at 8 pm!
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On Saturday, I made a chocolate cake with a white chocolate mousse filling (for a church auction)... which is a funny story because I don't consider myself a cake decorator and I had no idea how to make a white chocolate mousse-- but it turned out great!
raspberry coulis sauce (for the leftover mousse, to make parfaits), a turkey breast roast and a complete German dinner of a pork roast, potato dumplings and red cabbage!
I got a little carried away at Costco, about two weeks ago, so I've vowed to make recipes based on what's in my pantry and what's in my refrigerator. Did I mention that we finally bought a brand new refrigerator? I didn't? That happened in mid October, when Consumer Reports says is the best time to find a bargain on refrigerators. Do I hear an "Amen"?
On the way home from work, I started doing a mental inventory on what to make for dinner. I usually have a meal plan for the whole week-- but not this time! I had some Italian sausage , half a red bell pepper, some fresh spinach and some cremini mushrooms. So, I just started cooking, and didn't even dig out my camera, and started creating something that I had no idea would turn out so delicious.
My wonderful husband walked into the door at 6:30, just as I finished creating a dish that turned out to be a pasta in 45 minutes. Perfect timing! Craig smiled and gave this dish a double thumbs up. Yes, we had seconds. I don't have my usual tutorial on how to make this, but I quickly jumped onto my laptop to write down how I did it. This one's a keeper! It has sausage, vegetables and just the right about of spice to make a delicious dinner.


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Honda Aircraft Expands Sales Network with Canadian Partner
Honda Aircraft Company announced today a new Canadian Authorized Sales Representative for the HondaJet, the world's most advanced light jet. Honda Aircraft and Skyservice Business Aviation signed the official agreement at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) annual meeting and convention in Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 29. Skyservice will support HondaJet aircraft sales in Canada.
"Skyservice has an outstanding reputation in Canada as the country's largest aircraft management and charter operator and will be a strong HondaJet network partner," said Honda Aircraft President and CEO Michimasa Fujino. "Skyservice has an extensive footprint in major Canadian markets and shares Honda's commitment to provide the best customer experience, strengths we look for in any partnership."
Skyservice is one of Canada's largest aircraft management, maintenance and charter operator with facilities in Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary. The company offers comprehensive business aviation services including charter services, fixed base operations, maintenance, and aircraft management.
"For 26 years, our organization has maintained a strong commitment to service and building customer relationships," said Marshall Myles, president of Skyservice. "We are extremely excited to sell the best-in-class HondaJet in Canada."
The company has earned the Platinum ARG/US rating North America's most stringent aviation safety ranking for exceeding and maintaining the highest safety and operational standards, as well as the internationally recognized IS-BAO designation, the gold standard for business aircraft operations. Skyservice was founded in 1986 by Russell Payson. The company has 500 employees.
"Canada ranks fourth in the world for business jets and new business aircraft deliveries," said Byron Severson, Honda Aircraft Company vice president of sales. "It is an important market for Honda Aircraft, and today's agreement is a culmination of a thorough selection process to find the right partnership."
Honda Aircraft remains focused on a worldwide sales plan and strategy. In addition to Skyservice, there are nine HondaJet dealer representatives worldwide to provide sales and product support to customers. Each of these dealerships will be prepared for the HondaJet entry to service and will provide customers the quality of service expected from Honda. The company is currently evaluating future expansion of sales and support beyond North America and Europe.
Fujino added, "We will continue to review all regions and markets for the HondaJet introduction, as our ultimate goal is to sell and support this advanced aircraft worldwide."
For more information on Skyservice visit www.skyservice.com.
About HondaJet
HondaJet is the world's most advanced light business jet aircraft, with best-in-class advantages in performance, comfort, quality and efficiency. The HondaJet is the fastest, highest-flying, quietest, and most fuel efficient jet in its class. The HondaJet incorporates many technological innovations in aviation design, including the unique Over-The-Wing Engine Mount (OTWEM) configuration that dramatically improves performance and fuel efficiency by reducing aerodynamic drag. This design also reduces cabin sound, minimizes ground-detected noise, allows for the roomiest cabin in its class, the largest baggage capacity, and a fully private aft lavatory. The HondaJet is powered by two highly fuel-efficient GE Honda HF120 turbofan jet engines, and is equipped with the most sophisticated glass flight deck available in any light business jet, a Honda-customized Garmin® G3000 next-generation all-glass avionics system composed of three 14-inch landscape-format displays and dual touch-screen controllers. The HondaJet is Honda's first-ever commercial aircraft and lives up to the company's reputation for superior performance, efficiency, quality, and value.
About Honda Aircraft Company
Honda Aircraft Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Honda Motor Company, Inc., was founded in 2006 though has its heritage in more than 20 years of ground-breaking aeronautical research and development. At Honda Aircraft's World Headquarters campus in North Carolina, the birthplace of aviation, the company's associates work in more than 500,000 square feet of state-of-the-art R&D, Manufacturing and Administration Headquarter buildings to develop, produce, market and support the HondaJet with HondaJet dealers. The challenging spirit upon which Mr. Soichiro Honda founded Honda Motors is still alive today as Honda Aircraft fulfills one of Honda's long-standing dreams to advance human mobility skyward.
For more information, visit www.hondajet.com.
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